Issue Contest: Lucky Seven!

by **Sedgistan** » Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:49 am

Violet's response will be that the notification system is due an overhaul alongside the eventual forum replacement, and that therefore she's not going to make changes to notifications prior to that, particularly for relatively minor matters like this.

It's the same reason the WA compliance TGs aren't being changed to notifications.

by **Fauxia** » Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:00 am

Glad I got my 30 issues in, ten of which will all be in the top ten.

But in all seriousness, good luck to all who entered. Looking forward to see some good new drafts.

by **Clever Homo Sapiens** » Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:18 am

Good luck!

by **Bears Armed** » Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:35 pm

As a matter of interest, how many submissions were there?

by **Verdant Haven** » Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:16 pm

I'd call it somewhere in the vicinity of 250 entries received.

by **The Orwell Society** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:55 am

Verdant Haven wrote:I'd call it somewhere in the vicinity of 250 entries received.

Jezus… that's a lot. How are you gonna choose between that many?

by **Sedgistan** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:22 am

There's around 3,000 issues submissions per year that Editors review, so... "the normal way".

by **Rick Perry** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 6:52 am

Has we considered a winner yet. Or was there more then I thought and y'all are still doing the reviewing stage?

by **Sanctaria** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:40 am

We've made our decision and will be posting the results soon/in the next few days.

by **The Orwell Society** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:44 pm

Sanctaria wrote:We've made our decision and will be posting the results soon/in the next few days.

Can't wait!

by **Verdant Haven** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:32 pm

We have our winners! Check out that flashy news post!

https://www.nationstates.net/page=news/ ... index.html

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Presented in alphabetical order by author, the winners are:

Absolutely Speechless by Baloo Kingdom
The Birdman of Pelicanz by Bears Armed
March of Profits by Cretox State
Blue is a Part of the Rainbow Too by Daarwyrth
Killing in the Name of Beer by Redbrickland
Duel of the Fates by Sherpdawerp
Our Feta Which Art in Havarti by The Daystar Isles
Naprapathic New Thinkers Nag Nurses and Nuns by Vacatio Libertas
Apostropocalypse by Wentland
When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons... by West Barack and East Obama

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Please join the Issue Editing team in congratulating all of our winning entrants! From a field of nearly 250, these ten rose to the top. What's more, for six of these authors this will be their first ever published issue! What a great showing by some new talent, joining the ranks of four previous contest-winning veterans. Great work all around - you can look forward to seeing these issues starting to enter the game soon!

by **Indusse** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:44 pm

Congratulations to the winners!

by **Valentine Z** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:55 pm

Congratulations! See you all in Issues Megathread!

by **RedBrickLand** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:55 pm

Verdant Haven wrote:
Killing in the Name of Beer by Redbrickland

Huh, I guess I was right.

RedBrickLand wrote:The third time's a charm... hopefully.

Congratulations to the other contest winners! I look forward to answering their issues(and mine).

by **West Barack and East Obama** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:09 pm

It's an honour just to be nominated!

But in all seriousness, hats off to all. There were some great issues!

by **Forsher** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:52 pm

Congratulations to the winners.

I have a question, are the winning issues already in game? And if they're not, when might they be?

by **SherpDaWerp** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:28 am

Forsher wrote:I have a question, are the winning issues already in game? And if they're not, when might they be?

Not yet. The last two years, they've all been published by early November, so keep your eyes out for the next two months.

by **Daarwyrth** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:31 am

Yaay, lovely news to wake up to!

Congratulations to all the winners!

by **Paffnia** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:16 am

Congrats to the winning authors!

by **Islands Of Ventro** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:37 am

Congrats!

by **The Orwell Society** » Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:14 am

Congrats to all the winners!

by **Tinhampton** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:24 am

Blue is a Part of the Rainbow Too - which was the original name of Daarwyrth's contest draft - appears to have been published as "God Save The Queens" instead. (It appears to have been submitted as GSTQ, nor BIAPOTRT, in the first instance.) I am surprised that the correct name of this issue was not given by Verdant Haven when the issue contest winners' announcement was released.

by **Saint Tomas and the Northern Ice Islands** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:28 am

Tinhampton wrote:Blue is a Part of the Rainbow Too - which was the name of Daarwyrth's issue in the drafting stage - appears to have been published as "God Save The Queens." I am surprised that the correct name of this issue was not given by Verdant Haven when the issue contest winners' announcement was released.

Maybe they decided to change it during editing, which could had come after the announcement was made? The immediate assumption that Verdant Haven would give the incorrect title of the issue while being aware of its new one is absurd.

Plus, ‘The One-Trick Pony’ and ‘Known Unknowns’ from 2020’s and 2021’s contests (plus ‘Bombshell for @@LEADER@@‘ and a few others) all were retitled after the announcement.

Edit: The title of the thread was changed to God Save The Queens, when it was submitted it was under the original title. As you can see the thread OP a was changed a few days ago.

by **Daarwyrth** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:20 am

The original title was indeed "Blue Is A Part Of The Rainbow Too", however, to reflect the title change and to make it more easy for people to find the thread should they want to, I changed the title of the thread to reflect the change.

Personally, I have nothing against the title change and I absolutely love "God Save The Queens"

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